Event Program

Speaker:

Drew Schlosser:

Drew Schlosser works for Commerce Decisions, where he is the Senior Procurement Consultant for Canada, responsible for consulting services and training delivery for the North America Sector.  Since joining Commerce Decisions in 2019, Drew has provided thought leadership and expert advice to several DND Major Crown Projects, including Future Aircrew Training, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, and Logistics Vehicle Modernization.

Drew is a 23-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy, where he was responsible for managing a number of materiel management programs and procurement projects, including bid evaluation design for the Canadian Surface Combatant, one of Canada’s largest procurements to date. 

Drew resides in Ottawa where you can find him on his cross-country skis in the winter or in a canoe during the summer.

Mike Ross, Principal Consultant and International Services Capability Lead, Commerce Decisions

An experienced Principal Consultant with over 35 years’ IT based experience. Now providing professional consultancy services for Commerce Decisions with a focus on international clients and global expansion of Services Delivery.

With Commerce Decisions Mike has had extensive experience in the development of evaluation strategies, evaluation modelling and the deployment of AWARD® and has led on the procurement processes for many high-profile projects from around the world, including the Future Fighter Capability Project (FFCP) and a number of other current Canadian DND projects.

Peter Marshall, Professional Services Director & Principal Consultant, Commerce Decisions

An experienced Principal Consultant and Professional Services leader with 20 years’ strategic public sector procurement experience and prior to that, 10 years’ experience of training and consulting in the software process improvement and requirements management industries.

Since co-founding Commerce Decisions, Peter has been a thought-leader in the innovation of new methods and thinking used by public sector strategic procurement projects to design effective evaluation scoring mechanisms, secure value for money and perform sensitivity analysis, as part of a coherent and robust procurement assurance process.  Peter has supported many high-profile procurement projects around the world including the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) and a number of other current Canadian DND projects.